Q The letter Q is the seventeenth letter in the Latin alphabet. Its name in English language is cue, occasionally spelled cu .
	Qabala Qabala is a Administrative divisions of Azerbaijan of Azerbaijan.
	Qatar Qatar , officially the State of Qatar , is an emirate in the Middle East or Southwest Asia, occupying the small Qatar Peninsula on the northeasterly coast of the larger Arabian Peninsula. It is bordered by Saudi Arabia to the south; otherwise the Persian Gulf surrounds the state.
	QI QI, standing for Quite Interesting, is a comedy panel game television show hosted by Stephen Fry and shown on BBC Two and BBC Four. Older syndicated episodes are shown on UKTV G2. It is distinguished by the awarding of points not necessarily for the correct answer, but rather for an interesting one.
	Qibla Qibla is an Arabic language word for the direction that should be faced when a Muslim prayer. Most mosques contain a mihrab in a wall that indicates the qibla. The qibla has importance to more than just the salat, and plays an important part in everyday ceremonies.
	Qing Dynasty The Qing Dynasty , occasionally known as the Manchu Dynasty, was a Chinese Dynasties founded by the Manchu clan Aisin Gioro, in what is today northeast China, expanded into China and the surrounding territories, establishing the Empire of the Great Qing . According to Chinese tradition, the Qing Dynasty was the last Dynasties in Chinese history.
	Quackery Quackery is a derogatory term used to describe the unethical practice of promising health-related benefits for which there is little or no basis. Quack is also a term used for an incompetent medical doctor, or any other person who dispenses false medical advice or treatment. "Health fraud" is often used as a synonym for quackery, but this use can be problematic, since quackery can exist without fraud, a word which always implies deliberate deception.
	Quadrangle In architecture, a quadrangle, or more colloquially, quad, is a space or courtyard, usually square or rectangular in plan, the sides of which are entirely or mainly occupied by parts of a large building. The word is probably most closely associated with college or university campus architecture, but quadrangles may be found in other buildings such as palaces.
	Quadraphonic de:Quadrofonie it:Quadrifonia pl:Kwadrofonia
	Quadratic equation In mathematics, a quadratic equation is a polynomial equation of the second degree . The general form is where The letters a, b, and c are called coefficients: the quadratic coefficient a is the coefficient of x2, the linear coefficient b is the coefficient of x, and c is the constant coefficient, also called the free term.
	Quadrics This is an article about the computing company, for use in mathematics, see quadric.Quadrics is a supercomputer company formed in 1996 as a joint venture between Alenia Spazio and the technical team from Meiko Scientific. They produce hardware and software for Computer cluster commodity computer systems into massively parallel systems.
	Quadrilateral In geometry, a quadrilateral is a polygon with four sides and four vertices. Sometimes, the term quadrangle is used, for etymological symmetry with triangle, and sometimes tetragon for consistence with pentagon.
	Quadrille Quadrille is an historic dance performed by four couples in a square formation, a precursor to traditional square dance. It is also a style of music. The term may also refer to quad paper.
	Quadruped Quadrupedalism is a form of Terrestrial locomotion in animals using four leg . The majority of walking animals are quadrupeds, including mammals such as cattle and cats, and reptiles, like lizards. Birds, humans, insects, crustaceans and snakes are not quadrupeds.
	Quagga The quagga is an List of extinct animals subspecies of the plains zebra, which was once found in great numbers in South Africa's Cape Province and the southern part of the Orange Free State. It was distinguished from other zebras by having the usual vivid marks on the front part of the body only.
	Quai d'Orsay The Quai d'Orsay is a quay in the VIIe Arrondissement of Paris, part of the left bank of the Seine, and the name of the street along it. The Quai becomes the Quai Anatole France east of the Palais Bourbon, and the Quai de Branly west of the Pont de l'Alma.
	Quail Quail is a collective name for several genera of mid-sized birds in the pheasant family Phasianidae, or in the family Odontophoridae. This article deals with the Old World species in the former family. The New World quails are not closely related, but are named for their similar appearance and behaviour.
	Quake Quake is a first-person shooter computer game that was released by id Software on June 22, 1996 in video gaming. It was the first game in the popular Quake series of computer and video games. It can be said that the original Quake game pushed most PC hardware to its limits, due to never-before-seen features it offered: complex textured 3D environments, Polygon -modelled enemies with certain intelligence, and the like.
	Quaker Gun A Quaker Gun is a simulated cannon made from a wooden log, sometimes painted black, used to deceive an enemy into believing a foe possesses excess guns. On December 4, 1780 Continental Army Colonel William Washington used a Quaker Gun during the American Revolutionary War against over 100 Loyalist led by Colonel Rowland Rugeley, who surrendered rather than face "bombardment."
	Quamash Quamash, also known as Small Camas, is a perennial herb in the family Agavaceae. It is one species of the genus Camassia and is native to western North America in large areas of southern Canada and the northwestern United States, from British Columbia and Alberta to California and east from Washington state to Montana and Wyoming.
	Quandong Quandong is the name given to three kinds of Australian wild bush plants, of which two belong to the sandalwood genus (Santalum): * Desert quandong, sweet quandong, or native peach (Santalum acuminatum). Is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern arid areas of Australia.
	Quantification In language and logic, quantification is a construct that specifies the extent of validity of a predicate, that is the extent to which a predicate holds over a range of things. A quantification imposes a limitation on the variables of a proposition. A language element which generates a quantification is called a quantifier.
	Quantitative A quantitative property is one that exists in a range of magnitudes, and can therefore be measurement. Measurements of any particular quantitative property are expressed as a specific quantity, referred to as a Unit of measurement, multiplied by a number. Examples of physical quantities are distance, mass, and time.
	Quantum electrodynamics Quantum electrodynamics is a relativistic quantum field theory of electromagnetism. QED mathematically describes all phenomenon involving electric charge particles interacting by means of exchange by photons, whether the interaction is between light and matter or between two charged particles.
	Quantum field theory Quantum field theory is the quantum theory of field s. It provides a theoretical framework, widely used in particle physics and condensed matter physics, in which to formulate consistent quantum mechanics of many-particle systems, especially in situations where particles may be created and destroyed.
	Quantum Leap Quantum Leap was a science fiction on television that List of Quantum Leap episodes from March 1989 to May 1993 on NBC. It follows the adventures of Dr. Samuel Beckett , a brilliant scientist who finds himself abruptly and uncontrollably 'leaping' through time, temporarily switching places with diverse people at various times within his own lifetime, the second half of the 20th century: "leaping from life to life, striving to put right what once went
	Quantum mechanics Quantum mechanics is a first quantization quantum theory that supersedes classical mechanics at the atomic and subatomic particle levels. It is a fundamental branch of physics that provides the underlying mathematical framework for many fields of physics and chemistry, including condensed matter physics, atomic physics, molecular physics, computational chemistry, quantum chemistry, particle physics, and nuclear physics.
	Quapaw The Quapaw people are a tribe of Native Americans in the United States who historically resided on the west side of the Mississippi River in what is now the state of Arkansas. Today they live in Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Their language is of the Dhegiha branch of the Siouan language family.
	Quarantine Quarantine is enforced isolation, typically to contain the spread of something considered dangerous . The word comes from the Italian language quaranta giorni, meaning forty days. Quarantine is also used as a general term for blockade or for denying access systematically to a resource.
	Quark In particle physics, quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter . Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the fundamental interactions. The derivation of this word comes from the book Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
	QuArK The Quake Army Knife is a multi-purpose tool for the games using engines similar to or based on the Quake engine by id Software. QuArK has the ability to directly Level_design, and to a limited extent, model. It can import, export, and convert sounds, textures and various other game assets.
	Quarry A quarry is a type of open-pit mining from which rock or minerals are extracted. Quarries are generally used for extracting building materials, such as dimension stone. Quarries are usually shallower than other types of open-pit mines. People in some English-speaking countries are unlikely to make the distinction between this type of mine and any other type of open-pit or open-cast Borrow pit or gravel pit mining operation.
	Quarter note In music, a quarter note or crotchet is played for one quarter of the duration of a whole note. Quarter notes are notated with a filled-in oval note head and a straight, flagless stem. The stem usually points upwards if it is below the middle line of the musical staff or downwards if it is on or above the middle line.
	Quarterback The quarterback is a American and Canadian football position names in the offensive team backfield of American football and Canadian football, directly behind players of the "Lineman ". He is generally the leader on the field, responsible for initiating play by receiving the Football snap of the ball from the Football center.
	Quarterstaff A quarterstaff is a Middle Ages England variant of the staff weapon, consisting of a long shaft of wood, sometimes with metal-reinforced tips. The name is frequently used incorrectly for the fighting staves of other cultures, such as the Japan bo , China gun , or France bton franais.
	Quartz Quartz is one of the most common minerals in the Earth's continental crust. It has a hexagonal crystal structure made of trigonal crystallized silica , with a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale. Density is 2.65 g/cm³. The crystal habit is a six-sided prism that ends in six-sided pyramids, although these are often Crystal twinning, distorted, or so massive that only part of the shape is apparent from a mined specimen.
	Quartzite Quartzite is a hard, metamorphic rock which was originally sandstone. Through heating and pressure usually related to tectonic compression within orogeny, the original quartz sand grains and quartz silica cement were fused into one. Pure quartzite is usually white to grey.
	Quasar A quasar is an astronomy source of electromagnetic energy, including light, which shows a very high redshift. The general consensus is that this high redshift is physical cosmology, the result of Hubble's law, which implies that quasars must be very distant and hence very luminous.
	Quassia Quassia is a genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from tropical South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs.
	Quassia amara Quassia amara is a species in the genus Quassia, with some botanists treating it as the sole species in the genus. It is a shrub or rarely a small tree, growing to 3 m tall, native to Brazil. The leaf are alternate, 15-25 cm long, and pinnate with 3-5 leaflets, the leaf rachis being winged.
	Quaternion In mathematics, quaternions are a commutative extension of complex numbers. They were first described by the Ireland mathematician William Rowan Hamilton in 1843 and applied to mechanics in three-dimensional space.
	Quattrocento The cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento. Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle Ages and the early Renaissance.
	Quebec Quebec, or Qubec in French language, In 1898, the Canadian Parliament passed the first Quebec Boundary Extension Act, 1898 that expanded the provincial boundaries northward to include the lands of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada Cree.
	Quebec Bridge The Quebec Bridge in List of bridges in Canada crosses the lower Saint Lawrence River to the west of Quebec City, Quebec, and Levis, Quebec, Quebec. The Quebec Bridge is a riveted steel truss structure and is 987 meters long, 29 m wide, and 104 m high.
	Quebec City Quebec City or Qubec#French and English names for Quebec City is the capital of the Canada Provinces and territories of Canada of Quebec. It is the largest city in eastern Quebec. Quebec's Old Town, the only North American fortified city north of Mexico whose walls still exist, was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in 1985 as the "Historic District of Old Quebec".
	Quechua Quechua is a Native American language of South America. It was the language of the Inca Empire, and is today spoken in various dialects by some 10 million people throughout South America, including Peru and Bolivia, southern Colombia and Ecuador, north-western Argentina and northern Chile.
	Queen bee The queen bee in a Honeybee or hive is an adult female who is mated and is the mother of the bee of the hive. The queens are developed from larva selected by Worker bee and specially fed in order to become sexually mature. There is normally only one adult, mated queen in a hive, although there are exceptions.
	Queen consort A queen consort is the wife and consort of a reigning monarch. In contrast the husband of a queen regnant is usually not called "king consort", although this was more common in the past; rather, he is popularly called "prince consort". In the British system, a male consort does not automatically receive the title of "prince" until he is so created by the sovereign.
	Queen Maud Land Queen Maud Land is the part of Antarctica lying between the terminus of Stancomb-Wills Glacier, at 20W and Shinnan Glacier, at 4438'E in the area claimed by Norway on January 14, 1938. This claim, like all others in the Antarctic, is not universally recognized and is subject to the terms of the Antarctic Treaty System.
	Queen regnant A queen regnant is a female monarch who possesses all the monarchal powers that a king would have without regard to gender. This is in contrast with a queen consort, who is merely the spouse of a reigning monarch, and on her own has no official powers of state.
	Queen's Counsel Queen's Counsel, during the reign of a male Monarch known as King's Counsel, are, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, barristers, or in Scotland advocates, appointed by letters patent to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law".
	Queenfish Queenfish are a species of croaker occurring from Uncle Sam Bank, Baja California, to Yaquina Bay, Oregon; they are the only species in the genus Seriphus. They are common during summer in shallow water around pier pilings on sandy bottoms. They are found at depths up to 180 feet; however, occur more often from 4 to 27 feet.
	Queens Queens is one of the five boroughs of New York City. Geographically the largest borough in the city, Queens is home to many immigrants and two of New York's major airports. The borough of Queens is coterminous with Queens County, which is also the most ethnically diverse county in the United States.
	Queensboro Bridge The Queensboro Bridge, also known as the 59th Street Bridge, is a cantilever bridge over the East River in New York City. It connects the neighborhood of Long Island City in the borough of Queens with Manhattan, passing over Roosevelt Island. It carries New York State Route 25 and once carried New York State Route 24 and New York State Route 25A as well.
	Queensland Queensland is a state of Australia, in the north-east of the country. It is the second largest state by area and the third largest state by population. The capital and largest city is Brisbane, Queensland. Other major regional centres include the Gold Coast, Australia, Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Townsville, Queensland, Rockhampton, Queensland, Mackay, Queensland, Cairns, Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, and Mount Isa, Queensland
	Quentin Tarantino Quentin Jerome Tarantino is an United States film director, actor, and Academy Awards-winning screenwriter. He rapidly rose to fame in the early 1990s as a stylish auteur whose bold use of nonlinear storylines, memorable dialogue, and bloody violence brought new life to familiar American film archetypes.
	Quercitron Quercitron is a yellow dye obtained from the bark of the Black oak, a fine forest tree indigenous in North America. The name is a shortened form of quercicitron, from Latin quercus, oak, and citron, lemon, and was invented by Dr Edward Bancroft, who by act of parliament in 1785 was granted special privileges in regard to the importation and use of the substance.
	Quest A quest is a journey towards a goal used in mythology and literature as a plot. In literature, the objects of quests require great exertion on the part of the hero, and the overcoming of many obstacles, typically including much travel, which also allows the storyteller to showcase exotic locations and cultures.
	Quester Quester is an arcade game that was released by Namco in 1987 only in Japan. Gameplay The gameplay is similar to Taito Corporation's Arkanoid. Technical Info The game runs on Namco System 1 hardware.
	Question A question is a linguistic expression that will often request information in the form of an answer. Several kinds of questions can be formulated. For example, one may say that a question is the request itself, and an interrogative Sentence merely expresses it. Questions can also resemble 'requesting expressions' as well as commands normally being used to elicit a response.
	Question mark For the Question Mark butterfly, see Polygonia interrogationis. For the progressive rock album, see ? . For the singer, see ? & the Mysterians The question mark is a punctuation that replaces the full stop at the end of an Question Sentence .
	Question Time Question Time is a section of proceedings in a parliament in which backbenchers, including members of the minority parties, ask questions of the Prime Minister which they are obliged to answer. It usually occurs daily while parliament is sitting, though it can be cancelled in exceptional circumstances.
	Quetzal Quetzals are beautifully colored birds of the trogon Trogonidae family found in tropical regions of the Americas, from Mexico to Colombia. With a resplendent green tail as long as one meter, the Quetzal was considered divine, associated with the "snake god," Quetzalcoatl by early Central American civilizations.
	Quetzalcoatl Quetzalcoatl is the Nahuatl name for the Feathered-Serpent deity of ancient Mesoamerica, one of the main gods of many Mexican and northern Central American civilizations and also the name given to some Toltec rulers, the most famous being Topiltzin Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl.
	Quezon City Quezon City P (Filipino language: Lungsod Quezon) is the former capital and the most populous city in the Philippines. Located on the island of Luzon, Quezon City is one of the Cities of the Philippines and Philippine municipality that comprise Metro Manila, the National Capital Region.
	Quiche In cooking, a quiche [IPA: ki:?] is a pie that is made primarily of Eggs and cream in a pastry crust. Other ingredients such as chopped meat, vegetables and cheese are often added to the eggs before the quiche is baked. Quiche Lorraine is perhaps the most common variety.
	Quick Study Quick Study is a Christianity Television program hosted by Rod Hembree and his father Ron Hembree; it airs on Vision TV in Canada and Trinity_Broadcasting Network in The United States it also airs on many stations in over 30 Countries The program's goal is to take viewers through the Bible in one year and to show missionary activities that are happening all around the globe.
	Quickly Quickly is one of the largest bubble tea franchises in the world, with over 2000 locations in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Quickly is the brand name of Kuai Ke Li Enterprise Co. Ltd., which was founded in 1996 by Nancy Yang in Republic of China and started franchising in 1998.
	Quicksand Quicksand is a hydrocolloid gel consisting of fine granular matter, clay, and brine. When unperturbed, it often appears to be phase; however, even a minor change in the stress on the quicksand will cause a sudden decrease in its viscosity. After the initial perturbation - such as a person attempting to walk on it - the water and sand in the quicksand separate and dense regions of sand sediment form; it is because of the formation of these high volume fraction regions that the v
	Quietus Titus Fulvius Iunius Quietus was a Roman usurper. Quietus was the son of Macrianus Major and a noblewoman, possibly named Iunia. According to Historia Augusta, he was a military tribune under Valerian, but this information is challenged by historians.